Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-05
ven, from whence she seems to have come
down. o Christian young woman! ifyou
would make yourself happy and

Wouiu nldkt yourself ndppF anu
WIN THE BLESSING OF CHRIST,
60 ont among the destitute. A loaf o.
bread or a bundle of socks may make q
homely load to carry, but the angels Of God
will come out to watch, and the Lord
Almighty will give His messenger hosts
charge, saying: Look after that woman.
Canopy her with your wings and shelte,
her from sll HARM" and while you are
seated in the house Of destitution and suf.
fering, the little ones around the room will
whisper: who is she? Amt she beauti,
ful?" and if you will listen right sharply,
you will hear dripping down through the
leaky root, and rolling over the rotten
stairs, the angel chant that shook Bethle-
hem: GLORY 10 God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will to men," Can you
tell me why q Christian woman going
down among the haunts of iniquity on a
Christian errand, never meets with any
indignity? stood in the chapel of Helen
Chalmers, the daughter ofthe celebrated DR..
Chalmers, in the most abandoned part OF
the city Of Edinburgh; and / said to her
as l looked around upon the fearful sur
roundings Of that place: "Do you come
here nights to hold a service?" 20, yes"
she said. Can it be possible that you
never meet with IN insult while perform
ing this Christian errandp" '.Nsser, - she
said, never" That young woman who
has her father by her side walking down
the street, an armei police at each corner,
is not so we'll defended as that Christian
women who goes forth on Gospel work in
to the haunts of iniguity, carrying the
Bibles and bread. God, with the red right
arm of His wrath omnipotent, would tear
to pieces any one who should offer indig.
mites. He would smite him with light
nings, and drown him with floods, and
swallow him with earthquakes. and damn
him with eternal indignation. Some one
said: II dislike very much to see that
Christian woman.
TEACHING THOSE BAD BOYS
in the mission school. | am afraid to
have her instruct them" 80" said an
other man, 81 am afraid, too" Said the
first: ~ I'M afraid they will Use vile Ian
guage before they leave the place" "Ah,"
said the other man, 81 am not afraid of
that. What l am afraid Of is, that il any
vi llOct DONo SuUulu use ~ u Noiu i
that presence, the other boys would tear
him to pieces and kill him On the spot"
That woman is the best sheltered who is
sheltered by the Lord God Almighty, and
you need never fear going anywhere where
God tells You TO 90.
1t seems rs if the Lord mad ordained
woman for an especial work in the sOlicita-
ton of charities. Backed up by barrels in
which there is no flour, and by stoves in
which there is no fire, and by wardrobes in
which there are no clothes, a woman is
irresistible; passing on her errand, God
says to her: "You 90 into that bank, or
store, or shop, and get the money" She
goes in and gets it. The man is hard
listed, but she gets it. She could not help
but get it. 1t is decreed from eternity she
should get it. No need Of your turning
your back and pretending you don't hear
you do hear. There is no need of your
saying yOu are begged to death. There is
no need of your wasting your time, and
you might as well submit first as last.
You had better right away take down your
check. book, mark the number Of the
check, fill up the blank, sign your name,
| anu ltuu " W DCi. 1uClC III Ho hNNu vi
wasting time. Those poor children on the
back street have been hungry long enough.
That sick nan must have some farina.
That consumptive must have something u
ease his cough. | meet this delegate of a
relief society coming out of the store OF
such a hard listed man, and | say: Ibid
you get the money!" "0f course" she
says, ~ got the money; that's what
went for.
hi LORD TOLD NIX TO GO IN
and yet it, and He never sends me on a
FOOLS Grand"
Again: ! have to tell you that it is a
woman's specific right to comfort under
the stress of dire disaster. She is called
the weaker vessel; but all profane AZ well
as sacred history, attests that when the
crisis comes she is better prepared than
man to meet the emergency. How often
You have seen a woman who seemed to be
a disciple of frivolity and Incidence, who,
under one stroke Of calamity, changed to a
heroine. Oh, what a great mistake those
business men make who never tell their
business troubles to their wives! There
comes some great loss to their store, or
some of their companions in business play
them a sad trick, and they carry the bur
den all alone. He is asked in the house.
hold again and again: What is the
matter? But he believes il q
sort of Christian duty to keep
all that trouble within his own soul.
Oh, sir your first duty was to tell your
wife all about il. She, perhaps might not
have disentangled your finances, or extend,
ell your credit, but she would have helped
Won to bear your misfortune. You have
no right to carry on one shoulder that
which is intended for two. There are bust.
ness men here who know what / mean.
There came a crisis in your affairs. You
struggled bravely and long; but after a
while there came a day when you said
''Here / shall have to stop" and you call
ed in your partners, and you called in the
most prominent men in your employ, and
you have said: I'VE have got to stop
You left the store suddenly. You could
hardly make up your mind to pass thrugh
the street and over on the ferryboat. You
felt everybody would be looking at you,
aud blaming you, and d~enouncing you.
You fastened home. You told your wife
all about the affair. What did she say?
DID SHE PLAY THE BUTTERFLY?
Did she talk about the silks, and the rib
bons, and the fashions2 No. She came
up to the emergency. She quailed not
under the stroke. She helped you to be-
gin TO plan right away. She offered to 20
out of the comfortable house into a smaller
one, and bear the old cloak another winter.
She was one who understood your affairs
without blaming you. You looked upon
what you thought was a thin, weak wo-
mans arm holding you up; but while You
looked at that arm, there came into the
feeble muscles Of it the strength Of the
eternal God. No Gliding. No fretting.
No telling you about the beautiful house
of her father, from which you brought her,
ten, twenty. or thirty years ago. You
said: "well this is the happiest day OF
my life. / am glad ! have got from under
my burden. Ny wife don't care l don't
care" At the moment you were utterly
exhausted, God sent a Deborah 10
meet the host Of the Amele-
kites and scatter them like